Burning with Nero

[ARL]

Hi,
I just made my first VCD, which played fine on my DVD player (Pioneer DV 444), but I was disappointed with the quality. I captured an MPEG1 file from my TV card at 2.4MBit/sec. I then let Nero convert to VCD compliance and burn it. My question is does Nero retain the bitrate or does it convert it to 1150Kbit/sec which I see a lot of refernce to here. Is 1150 kind of a standard? If Nero did drop down the bitrate this would explain the lack of quality - I see the effects of compression very easily.

[RoopeT]

Yes, Nero encodes at 1150 kbs and does it poorly. If you already have an 2.4 Mbit/s mpeg1 file, demux it using TMPGEnc mpeg tools and then multiplex it again as non-standard VCD (with TMPGEnc or BBMPG). Try burning this remuxed MPG with Nero (check off the standard compliance). With some luck your player can play this XVCD.

If your capture is bigger than 800 Mb you'll have to split the file first (TMPGEnc) and the remultiplex both files ...